Monsoon & agriculture - The hide & seek game continues

The overall share of agriculture in India's gross domestic product has been declining continuously from 25% in 2002 to 17% in the present.

Budget impact: a commodities perspective

Knowing the dynamics of these asset classes will help you to better position your commodity investments

Assessing opportunities before the budget

Knowing the dynamics of these asset classes will help you to better position your commodity investments

Edible oilseed complex - an evolving scenario

Soybean is the most popular and the largest produced oilseed in the world. It constitutes around 55% of the total world production of oilseeds and figures around 220-235 million tonne. The major producing countries of soybean are the US, Brazil, Argentina, China and India.

Time to use the platinum, palladium spread

Investors should sell platinum and buy palladium when the spread between the precious metals exceeds $1,000, making platinum “extremely expensive” for industrial users, according to Equidex Brokerage Group Inc.

Base metals ride technical upswing

The base metals pack delivered a strong performance in May with only aluminum ending the month in the negative territory. Nickel emerged as the outperformer on the LME and the MCX.

Gold: Asset of the last resort

We live in uncertain financial times. The problems are serious and growing, the solutions are limited. It's as if everything that could go wrong, has gone wrong with financial and economic headwinds having converged to interrupt world growth.

Sugar

Prices of Agricultural commodities were at their peak during mid July 2008 on the back of strong fundamentals driven by emerging market demand and comparatively steady supplies.

Global economic recovery major driver for energy demand

Energy has been universally recognised as one of the most important inputs for economic growth and human development.

Agriculture :A big opportunity ahead

The year 2008 would be remembered in world history for its upswings and downturns in the various exchanges around the world. It was an extraordinary year that everyone would wish to forget but nonetheless, we have to live with the reality.

Hard times ahead as global economies expected to contract further

Global financial markets have faced the brunt of the economic slowdown and the IMF expects global growth to contract by ½ to 1% in 2009.

Energy pack may lead rally in commodity sector

The year 2008 assumed historical proportions when commodities like crude oil and select base metals touched new all-time highs and also broke multi- year historical lows in the same year. The year would rightly be called as The Year Of The Financial Tsunami in global economy;

Commodity lovers look to the long term

Investors’ love-affair with commodities has cooled in the face of the global banking crisis but fund managers and analysts say strong long-term fundamentals for oil, metals and crops are still likely to attract money.

Will the budget take markets to where they belong?

“Budget” would mean “taxes” to an individual, “tax treatment and sops” to corporates, and it would mean “many” to the commodity market participants and the ecosystem, as most budgetary announcements in one way or the other affect the commodities ecosystem in terms of trading or pricing of commodities.

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